Analemmatic dials

Planet trail, St.-Luc (Valois, Switzerland)

The highest in the world? (photo Mario Motta)

This should be the highest analemmatic dial in the world! The François-Xavier Bagnoud Observatory is set above St.-Luc, at an elevation of 2200 m (7200 ft). Nearby is the starting point of a planet trail, where the sun is represented by an analemmatic dial. Just like in Rijswijk.
I found information about the planet trail in the March, 1998 issue of Sky & Telescope, from which I also borrowed the pictures on this page.

The sun is 14 meter (46 ft) in diameter; the rim serves as hour ring. It should be elliptic in shape, then, but I can't judge that from the photo. All 24 hour points are indicated. The date line seems a bit too long to me.
According to the DCG catalog, the hour points are numbered from I to XXIV, local time. The rod serving as the gnomon is chained to the dial, as in Brou.

St. Luc is a ski resort, located in the valley of the Anniviers, a tributary of the Rhône river. The observatory is close to the terminal of the cable car.

Code DGC: 6083
Location: 46.2° N, 7.6° E
Design: Jacques Zufferey
Inauguration: 1989



The planet trail uses a scale of 1 meter to 1 million km (14,000 ml per in). Pluto is therefore as far as 6 km (4 ml) out. The scale for planet size is 1 cm to 1000 km (1400 ml per in). The earth thus is a sphere of 12.7 cm (5 in) in diameter, as in Rijswijk.

Saturn Planet ??

Planet ?? The planets have been designed by artists. The one at the left should be Saturn, with its rings. Its diameter thus is 1.20 m (4 ft). The one above at right I don't know, nor the one alongside. Do you??